Smart Card Alliance Smart Card Talk
August 2007 • Volume 12 Number 8

 

 

 

 

 

 

Council and Task Force Report

Alliance Members:   Participation in all current councils is open to any Smart Card Alliance member who wishes to contribute to the council projects.  If you are interested in participating in any of the active councils, please contact Cathy Medich.  

Transportation Council

Physical Access Council

  • The Council will be editing and publishing a white paper on migration options for physical access systems to use the PIV card, based on the document that was submitted to the Interagency Security Committee (ISC).  Please contact Cathy Medich (cmedich@smartcardalliance.org) if you'd like to participate in this project.
  • The Council will be reviewing the draft FIPS 140-3 document and discussing possible industry comments for submission to NIST. 
  • If you are interested in participating in the Physical Access Council, please contact Council chair, Roger Roehr (rroehr@tycoint.com), vice chair Bob Merkert (rmerkert@scmmicro.com), secretary Lolie Kull (lolie.kull@eds.com) or Cathy Medich. 

Healthcare Council

  • The Healthcare Council is working on a new white paper on healthcare payments and is defining the detailed outline and topics for the white paper.  Please contact Cathy Medich (cmedich@smartcardalliance.org) if you'd like to participate in this project.
  • If you are interested in participating in the Healthcare Council, please contact Cathy Medich. 

Contactless Payments Council

Identity Council

Other Councils

  • All councils will hold in-person meetings during the Alliance Annual Conference, Oct. 9-11, in Boston.  Information about these meetings will be distributed via the council email lists.
  • A members-only council web site is available at http://www.sca-councils.org.  This is a password-protected site that contains council working documents and contact lists.  Each Council area has a separate password since Councils may have different membership policies.  If you are a Smart Card Alliance member and would like access to the council site, please contact Cathy Medich. 
  • If you are interested in forming or participating in an Alliance council, contact Cathy Medich.  Click here to download a description of the council structure, proposal process and council interest feedback form. 

New Members

Mobile Candy Dish, Berkley, CA www.mobilecandydish.com
Membership Level: General
Member Contact: Michelle Fisher, CEO
Description: provides mobile commerce applications for handheld devices

Jellen Ventures, Inc (JVI), Alexandria, VA
Membership Level: Associate
Member Contact: C.W. (Larry) Jellen
Description: consulting services in the area of secure documents

Probaris, Philadelphia, PA  www.probaris.com
Membership Level: General
Member Contact: Megan McHugh, Director, Product Marketing
Description: software company specializing in secure identity solutions

S.M.A.R.T. Association, Roseville, CA  www.smartassociation.com
Membership Level: Leadership Council
Member Contact: Dale Grogan, Director Smart Card Initiatives
Description: develops permission-based marketing systems and operations for healthcare providers

Monitise Americas, Warwick, RI  www.monitiseamericas.com
Membership Level: General
Member Contact: Lisa Stanton, EVP, Business Development
Description: offers mobile banking platforms for financial institutions

Raritan, Somerset, NJ  www.raritan.com
Membership Level: General
Member Contact: Marissa Waddell, Product Marketing Mgr
Description: provider of KVM switches that offer management solutions that simplify IT operations

Web Site News

Updated  web content

July 2007 web statistics

  • 104,010 visitor sessions for the month
  • 3,355 visitor sessions per day
  • 741,086 total page views for the month
  • 161,905 Industry News items viewed
  • 7,240 Card Reader Catalog items displayed
  • 16,215 PDF downloads

If you have any suggestions on content that you'd like to see on the Alliance web site, please send them to info@smartcardalliance.org.

Alliance in the News

The Alliance has an active communications program to promote industry messages in business, vertical market, and technology publications. Coverage results from both Alliance press releases and interviews with publications writing articles about smart cards. Selected recent coverage is shown below with links to online articles.

August 2007

July 2007

SCA Latin America News

The Smart Card Alliance Latin America project kicked off on October 19, 2004 with the presentation of the Department of Commerce Market Developer Cooperator Program (MDCP) award totaling $288,000 that forms a partnering effort between the International Trade Administration and SCA to develop international trade and support education, training, and resource development for smart cards in Mexico, Brazil, and the Caribbean Islands. The Alliance staff has held organizing meetings with ITA field office personnel in Mexico and Brazil to discuss ways to bring smart card awareness and education to the government and commercial markets in those countries. The Alliance has also met with ITA personnel based in Washington, DC, Philadelphia, and Miami who are in support roles and are prepared to assist the Alliance's Latin American project.

In July 2005 the Latin America Chapter was launched.  Organizations with smart card-related business interests in all Latin American countries and the Caribbean, plus any organization based in North America or internationally with interests in the Latin America markets, should contact Edgar Betts, Manager Business Development – Latin America at 1-954-642-8969  or ebetts@smartcardalliance.org. Memberships are available for Leadership Council, General, Government, and Associate levels.

In May, 2007 the Smart Card Alliance held the first smart card business conference and exhibition in Mexico City.  The two day event, developed jointly with the GlobalPlatform organization featured drew more than 200 attendees and featured industry experts from across the Latin American region representing the government ID and security markets and the bank card and mobile payments markets.  The event was the first of many future educational and business networking events planned to unite the suppliers and issuers of smart card technology together under the guidance of the Smart Card Alliance Latin American Chapter.

A recent report released by Frost & Sullivan called The Americas Smart Card Market Analysis projected microprocessor smart card shipments of 136.4 million in 2005, and with over a 59 percent annual growth rate projected through 2010.  The Latin American smart card market growth is due to many market factors including the migration of mobile telecommunications operators to GSM technology, the migration to EMV in the financial sector, the move to smart transit fare cards and new government and commercial secure identification initiatives.  Responding to these market factors, the Smart Card Alliance today announced the formation of a new Latin American chapter to bring together smart card suppliers, partners and customers in order to address the challenges facing smart card deployment in the region.   

“The Latin American smart card market is now emerging and could develop more rapidly than other markets by effectively learning from similar smart card initiatives and by forming business partnerships that can quickly deliver successful implementations,” said Randy Vanderhoof, executive director of the Smart Card Alliance.    
   
The main mission of the Smart Card Alliance Latin American chapter is in line with the overall goal of the Alliance: to stimulate the understanding, adoption, use and widespread application of smart cards. The Alliance plans to use specific projects such as bi-lingual education programs, market research, advocacy, industry relations and open forums to keep Latin American chapter organization members connected to industry leaders and innovative thought.
   
“The Smart Card Alliance has played a valuable role in developing the U.S. market in both the public and private sector.  Our organization provides an educational and collaborative forum in which all of the stakeholders—manufacturers, issuers and end users—can work together to develop the cross-industry real-world solutions needed to deploy smart card systems.  Our organization is uniquely positioned to bring a collective energy and focus to this technology in Latin America,” said Vanderhoof.

Next Steps:

Below is a summary of the important Latin America Chapter programs and industry activities planned for 2007.

  • White Paper translation. The Smart Card Alliance Latin America (SCALA) has translated five white papers into Spanish and Portuguese to allow the local markets to have access to valuable information in their language. The selection of the white paper to be translated was important in order to be significant to the local markets of Latin America. This action helps the Alliance create an image of not only a U.S. focused institution, but an international and local.
  • Website. The Smart Card Alliance Latin America (SCALA) website; though very informational of our institution it has limited deliverable and resources useful for the local markets.
  • Online Educational Program. The Smart Card Alliance Latin America (SCALA) in its efforts to expand its website deliverables to the market it has agreed to host a member online educational program. The program contains information about smart cards in both Spanish and English, covering from basic to some advanced knowledge..
  • Educational Institute – Certification Course. The Smart Card Alliance Latin America (SCALA) Physical Access Council has worked on developing an Educational Institute (E.I.) course that will be used at Expo Seguridad Mexico conference in April 2007 on the use of smart cards for physical access. This course will be a classroom style course provided to the attendees of Expo Seguridad Mexico in the security market. It is intended to be a follow-up course to the physical access course that is provided by The Latin American Security Association (ALAS) at their conference events.
  • Educational/Promotional Video. The Smart Card Alliance Latin America (SCALA) has held meetings with The Latin American Security Association (ALAS) and Obraweb to create online videos for the SCALA website. The idea would be to film one of SCALA’s Educational Institutes (E.I.) in high quality video to provide industry information and promote attendance to the Alliance.
  • Member invitation. The Smart Card Alliance Latin America (SCALA) with the leadership of the Transportation Council has developed a list of organizations in the transportation industry to send a formal invitation to join the Alliance and the transportation council. Due to the limited response of organizations in the region to join the Alliance and participate, the leadership of this council has agreed to use the contacts that the Alliance has acquired and invite them behalf of the transportation council to join our organization.
  • Articles for targeted industry magazines. The Alliance Latin America, Media Outreach Council has established several meeting in Brazil with other participating member organizations to organize the direction and responsibility of the council. As the council achieved it organizational logistics it began developing articles for publishing at identified magazines on behalf of the Alliance.

How to get involved:

If you would like to get involved in any of the Latin American activities listed above or wish to be added to the contact list for future announcements, please send an email to info@smartcardalliance.org.


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